Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core

核心E：外联、招聘和参与核心：摘要： 阿尔茨海默病（AD）是一种 巨大的公共卫生问题及其日益增加的患病率要求AD相关的 外展、研究招募和社区参与。根据当地需求评估， 呼吁在州（PA州阿尔茨海默氏症计划）和联邦（国家阿尔茨海默氏症项目法案）两级采取行动， 我们为拟议的支助期确定了以下具体目标： 并启动新的社区参与活动，以满足当地利益相关者的需求， 阿尔茨海默病研究和护理的区域和国家优先事项;目标2）促进招募 将AD谱最早结束的不同参与者纳入临床核心和辅助研究;以及Aim 3)培训卫生专业人员和卫生科学专业学生尽早诊断疾病， ADRD范围的终点，重点是转化a）尖端生物标志物研究和B） 关于AD的异质性和循证治疗方法的新证据， 以社区为基础的供应商的现在和未来。我们将通过以下途径实现这些相互关联的目标 研究战略，包括创新的编程，并建立在我们过去最大的成功 几年为目标1规划的活动的主要例子包括与主要的公民和社会组织建立伙伴关系， 服务组织，维持社区咨询理事会，发展社区参与 从社区礼堂的系列讲座到黑人拥有的广告“弹出窗口”， 经营的企业。目标2的例子包括彻底改革我们的招聘信息， 突出非裔美国人在诊所核心的研究参与叙述，并编织这样的 将叙事转化为广泛的数字和印刷材料。目标3的主要重点是发展和 提供现场跨专业的临床培训，以及继续教育计划，以更大的 与UPMC，阿尔茨海默氏症协会和大学的HRSA合作的专业观众- 获资助的“加强老人工作人口计划”（目标3）。我们研究策略的这些和其他要素 将使用跟踪的数量和特征等方法进行持续评估， 参与我们的计划（社区，学生和专业人士），管理反馈表和/或预 对每组学习者进行活动调查，并监测报名参加的人数。 接收信息或由PITT-ADRC联系，或者在社区演示之后，或者 与社区团体、提供者和其他研究合作者建立具体的伙伴关系。

Core E: Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core: Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an enormous public health problem and its increasing prevalence demands a concomitant increase in AD-related outreach, research recruitment, and community engagement. In response to a local needs assessment and calls for action at the state (PA State Alzheimer’s Plan) and federal (National Alzheimer’s Project Act) levels, we have identified the following specific aims for the proposed period of support: Aim 1) To sustain effective and initiate new community engagement activities that are responsive to local stakeholder needs and address regional and national priorities in Alzheimer’s disease research and care; Aim 2) To facilitate recruitment of diverse participants at the earliest end of the AD spectrum into the Clinical Core and ancillary studies; and Aim 3) To train health professionals and students of the health sciences in the diagnosis of persons at the earliest end of the ADRD spectrum with an emphasis on translating a) cutting edge biomarker research and b) emerging evidence regarding the heterogeneous nature of AD and evidence-based treatment approaches to community based providers of the present and future. We will achieve these interrelated aims through a research strategy that includes innovative programming and builds on our biggest successes over the past several years. Primary examples of planned activities for Aim 1 include partnering with key civic and social service organizations, maintaining a community advisory council, developing neighborhood-based engagement programs ranging from a lecture series in a community auditorium to AD “pop ups” in Black owned and operated establishments. Examples for Aim 2 include overhauling our recruitment messaging to consistently highlight the research participation narratives of African Americans in the Clinic Core and weaving such narratives into a wide range of digital and print materials. The primary foci of Aim 3 are developing and delivering on-site interprofessional clinical training, as well as continuing education programs to larger professional audiences in partnership with UPMC, the Alzheimer’s Association and the University’s HRSA- funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Project (Aim 3). These and other elements of our research strategy will be evaluated on an ongoing basis using such methods as tracking the number and characteristics of participants in our programs (community, student, and professional), administering feedback forms and/or pre- post activity surveys to each group of learners, and monitoring the number of individuals who sign up to receive information or be contacted by the PITT-ADRC either following community presentations, or as a result of specific partnerships with community groups, providers, and other research collaborators.